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The earliest cuneiform tablets come from the city of Uruk, not far from Ur, and were written in roughly 3350 BCE, around the time that Stonehenge might have been built and seven centuries before the great Pyramid at Giza.
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“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
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“And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. I would not change it.”
― As You Like It
― As You Like It
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In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
― I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon
“The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.”
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